Advanced Science: Brim enables pathology-only pan-cancer survival prediction

Mar 9, 2025 · 1 min read
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Our team reported Brim in Advanced Science, an interpretable multimodal fusion model for bridged histology-genomics survival prediction in pan-cancer.

Brim is trained with both whole-slide pathology images and molecular features, but can be deployed using routine pathology slides only, making clinical translation much easier.

Key points:

  • Validated across 12 cancer types and 5,000+ patients.
  • Outperformed single-modality and conventional multimodal baselines in survival prediction.
  • Preserved interpretability with attention and attribution analyses for clinically relevant regions.
Brim framework

Paper: Interpretable Multimodal Fusion Model for Bridged Histology and Genomics Survival Prediction in Pan-Cancer